John Grisham Quotes

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.

People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.

I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed.

I've signed a few sneakers in my day.

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

Just a couple of minutes ago, I signed a couple of bowling pins for some people. That's a normal thing. Somebody will hand me something and say, 'Draw a picture! Draw the Dude!' They're probably selling them on eBay or something.

Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.

Marlon Brando came up to me many, many years ago. He wanted me to do a little doodle for him on the back of an airline ticket.

I have Peter O'Toole's autograph on a first-edition copy of his autobiography that I acquired under false pretenses.

In a time where everything's a flavor of the month, and it's hard to have any sort of longevity, I've been able to sell records still. I want to be the guy that stands out there and says thank you personally to everyone. And I try after my shows and kick it because I want to genuinely say thanks.

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

I've been as consistent as human beings can be.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

I write with all my heart

When I was taking my canoeing lessons I was given this oar to practice with, and I decided to have everyone sign it. All the cast and crew signed it and now I'm going to frame it.

If I'm not passionate about it, I can't write it. I can't fake it.

At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.